Frank C. McCarthy

     
    In Pursuit of the White Buffalo
     In Pursuit of the White Buffalo

     
     
    In Pursuit of the White Buffalo by Frank McCarthy
    Edition Size:   1500 signed by the artist and consecutively numbered
    Image Size: 32 X 19"h
    Published from the artist's original oil painting
    Suggested Price: CDN: $2700.00 Canadian.
    In Pursuit of the White Buffalo
    The white buffalo was an exceedingly rare beast.  Estimates based on hide traders' records indicate that a white bison occurred only once in every five million animals.  Plains Indian legend says that the white buffalo was so great a rarity that even the Great Spirit, or Sun god, was surprised, and claimed these creatures as his own.
    Sacred though the white buffalo was, he was also much hunted by all the Pains Indian tribes.  Especially to the Mandans Indians from what is now North Dakota, the hide of a white buffalo was powerful medicine and a good skin could command the price of ten to fifteen horses.
    "Plains Indians trained their best horses to hunt buffalo," says Frank C. McCarthy.  "But the white buffalo was elusive, often seeming to be sheltered by the herd, as if the other bison had a sense of the white creature's deity.  A band of Indians might track a white buffalo for weeks and never get close.  These Sioux hunters may have drawn close, but the outcome is far from certain.

     
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    Description: western, indian, ambush, whte buffalo, bison, frank McCarthy, Greenwich Workshop,